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Survey of Income and Education, 1976 (ICPSR 7634)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection contains information gathered in the
Survey of Income and Education (SIE) conducted in April-July 1976 by
the Census Bureau for the United States Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare (HEW). Although national estimates of the
number of children in poverty were available each year from the Census
Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS), those estimates were not
statistically reliable on a state-by-state basis. In enacting the
Educational Amendments of 1974, Congr... (more info)

This data collection contains information gathered in the
Survey of Income and Education (SIE) conducted in April-July 1976 by
the Census Bureau for the United States Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare (HEW). Although national estimates of the
number of children in poverty were available each year from the Census
Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS), those estimates were not
statistically reliable on a state-by-state basis. In enacting the
Educational Amendments of 1974, Congress mandated that HEW conduct a
survey to obtain reliable state-by-state data on the numbers of
school-age children in local areas with family incomes below the
federal poverty level. This was the statistic that determined the
amount of grant a local educational agency was entitled to under Title
1, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. (Such funds were
distributed by HEW's Office of Education.) The SIE was the survey
created to fulfill that mandate. Its questions include those used in
the Current Population Survey regarding current employment, past work
experience, and income. Additional questions covering school
enrollment, disability, health insurance, bilingualism, food stamp
recipiency, assets, and housing costs enabled the study of the poverty
concept and of program effectiveness in reaching target groups. Basic
household information also was recorded, including tenure of unit (a
determination of whether the occupants of the living quarters owned,
rented, or occupied the unit without rent), type of unit, household
language, and for each member of the household: age, sex, race,
ethnicity, marital history, and education.

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Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Survey of Income and Education, 1976. ICPSR07634-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07634.v1

Universe:
Households in each of the 50 states and the District of
Columbia in 1976.

Data Types:
census/enumeration data,
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The hierarchical file structure includes
household, family, and individual records. Character 441 of each
record contains a record type code that allows the user to determine
whether the particular record is a household, family, or person. In
total there are 752,960 records contained in the file, including
151,170 household, 160,975 family, and 440,815 person records. The
file is ordered with the household record followed by one of three
possible structures. See the codebook for complete computer record
sequence notes.

Sub-state geographic units are not extensively
identified, as the original survey design attempted to facilitate
analysis at the state level.

The size of the survey sample and the
resulting data collection are large. Approximately 158,500 households
were selected for interviewing. The data collection consists of nine
files (one for each of the census divisions).

Methodology

Sample:
A stratified, multistate cluster design was used.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-06-28

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB7634.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.